Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1898 — SHORT SPECIALS. [ARTICLE]

SHORT SPECIALS.

Among the nominations wnicn were sent to the senate Friday was that of Brig. Gen. Lawton to be major general, and Col. i Leonard Wood to be brigadier general. Lieut. Peary has arrived at Sydney, B. C., ' on his way to the Arctic regions. He says he is confident that he will reach the north pole this time, but he may consume four years in doing IL Albert Cullom, a nephew of United States Senator Shelby M. Cullom, of Illinois. suddenly expired In a Chattanooga (Ga.) drug •tore, whither he had gone to purchaaa medicine for himself. President McKinley, upon whom Yale university recently conferred the degree of doctor of laws, has received from President Dwight and the members of the corporation the usual diploma. The board of trustees of the. soldiers’ home at Quincy, lU., made an estimate of an appropriation to bo asked of the next legislature, fixing the sum at $463,700, which la based on an average membership of '.600. rhe New York Herald announces the marriage last Saturday of Mlsa Ella McPherson, daughter of the late John R. McPherson, United States senator from New Jersey, to Dr. Joseph Muir. Mrs. Muir la the heiress to an estate worth millions. All records were broken In St. Louis and vicinity by th* heavy rainfall of Thursday and Thursday night. Reports from all sections of the city indicate that the damage done by this great body of water mounts up Into the hundred thousands. La Bourgogne's passenger list has been carefully revised and It Is known that there were <l4 souls on board the steamer, of whom i>W were lost and 164 saved. Of the saved 12 were secood-claas, 47 steerage and the remaining 106 were members of the crew. '-he senate committee on claims. In Its report, exonerated the Methodist church from all blame relative to the payment »f th* claim of the Methodist Book concern, and the payment to Maj. E. B. Btahljnan of 1100,000, as an agent, in getting the t alm through.